From The American Scholar, an essay on Brooklyn Books of Wonder: Why a certain group of successful literary writers needs to get real; and a look at how a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand. An article on living proof of the power of poetry. W. Dale Nelson's Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom explores how poet-journalists have straddled their two worlds. The first chapter from Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun by John M. Fyler. A review of Language and Region by Joan C. Beal. Determined that dying languages not be lost forever, researchers are traveling the world to interview the last speakers. One language is lost about every two weeks, they say.
